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It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 15 hours ago

You're forgetting the speed at which the shockwave from the compression travels through the stick. I guess it's around the speed of sound in that material, which might be ~2 km/s

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